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The thinning of ice melanges, an icy glue that fuses ice rifts back together, may play a major role in iceberg calving.

Melting ‘glue’ may have sent the world’s largest iceberg to its doom, new study finds

By Yasemin Saplakoglu published

The thinning of an icy "glue" that holds fractured ice together may drive ice shelf collapse in Antarctica, according to a new study.

Climate change
A Dec. 17 image shows A-68a after its big split, likely due to a collision with shallow seabed off the shore of South Georgia.

The world's largest iceberg has just broken in two

By Rafi Letzter published

A chunk of ice about the size of Queens and the Bronx combined has broken off what was, until this fracture, the world's largest iceberg.

Planet Earth
A crabeater seal rests in Antarctica.

16 Times Antarctica Revealed Its Awesomeness in 2019

By Stephanie Pappas published

Antarctica
This image shows the two cracks captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite on Sept. 14, 2019.

Endangered Antarctic Glacier Could Soon Calve a Massive New Iceberg

By Mindy Weisberger published

Two large rifts have widened near the edge of Pine Island Glacier on the West Antarctic ice sheet. If they continue to grow, they could release an iceberg four times bigger than Manhattan.

Antarctica
A giant iceberg has calved off the front of the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica.

'Loose Tooth' Iceberg Calves Off East Antarctica in Surprising Spot

By Stephanie Pappas published

An iceberg the size of the Isle of Skye has broken free from Antarctica's Amery Ice Shelf.

Antarctica
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Can Kidnapping a Giant Iceberg from Antarctica Solve Cape Town's Water Crisis?

By Laura Geggel published

Genetics
A green iceberg in the Weddell Sea, photographed in February 1992.

Antarctica's Bizarre Green Icebergs Are More Than a Quirk of the Southern Ocean

By Stephanie Pappas published

Scientists think they know why some icebergs are emerald.

Antarctica
Globe with Antarctica

Antarctica: The Ice-Covered Bottom of the World (Photos)

By Jeanna Bryner published

Here's a look at the southernmost continent, a place of extremes.

Antarctica
NASA's IceBridge project captured this view of a strange rectangular-shaped iceberg in Antarctica in October 2018.

NASA Figures Out Where Weirdly Square Iceberg Was Born

By Rafi Letzter published

NASA went back and looked at how that weirdly square iceberg formed. What they found surprised them.

Antarctica
This coffin-shaped iceberg is part of an iceberg that split from the Ross ice shelf and is now circling in Antarctica's frigid waters.

This Coffin-Shaped Iceberg Is Drifting Toward Death

By Rafi Letzter published

An astronaut snapped a photo of this big, old chunk of ice, which is finally on its way to die.

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